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BASEBALL SALARIES OF
OLD WERE RIDICULOUS
CHICAGO, Aug. 31.—Baseball man-
ogers and players of a quarter cen
tury ago say they drew salaries that
appear ridiculous compared with fab
ulous sums which those of to-day are
said to receive, according to figures
gathered by a local sporting writer.
“Captain” Adrian C. Anson was
Said to have received the “princely”
Sum of $2,700 for managing the Chi
cago “White Stockings” in 1888, the
fear after he had finished the season
with a batting average of .421. Of
this amount $700 represented his
services as acting captain and man
ager of the team.
R. E. Smith, of Chicago, says he
possesses the contract. Smith has
also the contracts made by N. Fred
Pfeffer and Edward N. Williamson
when they played in the Brotherhood
League in 1889. These two players
were talked of at that time as the
greatest in the game. The Chicago
club paid Williamson $3,000, while
Pfeffer, one of the greatest of all sec
ond basemen, received only $2,000 and
the score card privileges.
A larger salary than any of these
old-time stars was paid to Charles
Comiskey. present owner of the Chi
cago White Sox. when he jumped to
the Brotherhood League. His con
tract, also held by Smith, called for
*7.000 In 1890. Comiskey was then
regarded as the dean of fielding first
basemen, although he was not re
garded as good at bat as Anson.
Big League Clubs in Homestretch
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Ma jorRaces Have Been Interesting
How to Get
Rid of Eczema
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f you bruise your hand, you wlH
.Ice that a scab forms, and when it
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muecle, bone, sinew, ligament. All
^ made from the blood, from the
terials that your stomach and tn-
tlnes convert from food Into what
call blood. And this blood circulates
the myriad of tiny blood vessels
the skin. Start from your stomach,
ere blood materials begin, and it
n't be Ions before you are free of
iema. Use S. S. S. for a short
ie, and not only will eczema dla-
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lewed.
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ly to the healthy. Judicious selec-
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at is why it regenerates the blood
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luence in overcoming eczema, rash,
nples and all skin afflictions.
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N EW YORK, Aug. 31.—See that
date line? “August thirtieth.”
It means that only the home
stretch stage of the baseball season
remains. Glance at the schedule. In
the American League the West has
had its last glance at the Eastern
teams. In the National League the
East has had its last look at the
Western teams.
Only one more spell of intersec-
tlonal'battling remains. On Septem
ber 9, a week from next Tuesday, the
Western clubs of the American trek
eastward and the Eastern clubs of
the National go westward on the last
long road trips of the year.
After being absent‘until September
23 the trturists skidoo back to their
native heaths, there to finish the cam
paign against rivals in their own
sections, with the big wind-up on Oc
tober 5. , ,
It seems hardly a month ago w hen
the season got under way. Odd how
every bas»eball campaign has a knack
of appearing shorter than its prede
cessor. We take the liberty of pre
suming that other fans are like those
with whom we are in contact, that as
they grow older time flies just that
much faster. In the spring we all
looked forward to the possibility of
two of the closest races in the his-
torv of the major leagues. \\ here are
vour close races now? Gone, absent^
departed—wafted away in the heat of
midseason, with the expected run
ners-up so far from the pacemakers
that hope has been abandoned, even
in their home towns.
• • •
S URELY the season just closing has
not been an uninteresting one.
In many ways It has excelled most of
those that have gone before. But It
has proved a great disappointment in
one way. The best part should be
the last, just as dessert comes after
the soup, entrees and salad. But there
Is little dessert this time, except for
the followers of the Giants and Ath
letics nnd the moderate number of
broad-minded enthusiasts who enjoy
good baseball whether It Is by their
own team or the rival.
* * •
B ACK in April we had laid out be
fore us the greatest little three-
team contest ever offered in the
American I.eagut. The Athletics,
Senators and Red Sox were to battle
neck and neck all the way down to
the wire, with the hottest finisher
clutching the pennant. Instead, what
have we? {
The Athletics have sewed up the
race and the dasn down the final five
weeks of the way will be Bans com
petition. Where are the Senators and
Red Sox. They have given way to a
new white hope, the Naps, who, fig
ured by practically nobody to be in
better than fourth or fifth place, have
slashed their way ahead of both the
expected contenders into second place.
The Senators even have a battle on
for third place, with the White Sox
providing the worry, ana the Red Sox
,,,,, nowhere, an absolute fixture in
fifth place unless perchance the Ti-
ohniiH n#»rk uu and take that
from them, shoving the Bostonese
down to sixth. World's champions
one year and second divisioners the
next. Truly hard lines for Hub fans.
Manager of the world’s champions
one year and out of baseball entirely
the next—poor Jake Stahl!
* * *
/~' AST your eye upon the Pirates—
that crestfallen band of Bucca
neers that had hoped to run the
Giants ragged. It probably is safe
to say that there were more persons
who picked the Pirates to win the
National League gonfalon than there
were who thought the Giants would
triumph. Yet third is the best that
the Pirates can possibly get now, and
the Cubs may beat them out of that.
Again In the National we have that
grand old institution—the dark horse
—springing into view in the shape of
the Phillies, w’ho have wrenched off
second niche when hardly anyone
considerd them in talking of the race
before it got under way.
An unusual condition exists among
the fans of the American League cir
cuit. Those of every city are dis
gruntled at the showing of their home
teams, odd as this may seem. It would
be expected that somebody would b3
satisfied, but not so. The Athletics’
rabid followers had expected to see
their favorites make a tremendous
walkover of the race, with a margin
of probably fifteen or twenty full
games over the next club at this time.
It’s funny how great things are de
manded of Connie Mack just because
he and his team, taken together, rep
resent enough combined strength * j
win a few more games in a season
than any rival. But only three weeks
ago thev were talking in Philadelphia
of the possibility that the Mackmen
would win 112 games this season and
break the record. They couldn’t do
that now even if they should win
every remaining game.
Though the Naps had been figured
only as outsiders by fans In other
cities, Clevelanders spoke of their
pennant chances with alacrity, and
when they got up there near the
Quakers they said, “It’s all over now;
the Naps will breeze in.” Just at a
time when they seemed likely to make
trouble for the Athletics, the Naps
failed at the psychological moment
and will have to accept second place.
Chicago fans feel about the same to
ward the White Sox. The attitude of
Hub fans toward the Red oox Is ea^y
to imagine, and as for the other tail-
enders—St. Louis. New York and De
troit—It is the same old story of
false hopes gone to wreck.
* * *
I N the National League the fans that
are well satisfied with their clubs
are those who follow the Giants, the
Phillies and the Boston Braves, who
under Stallings have fought out of the
cellar into a place where they have a
chance to beat out Brooklyn for the
leadership oi the second division. The
Dodgers have had a discouraging mi 1-
season after an encouraging star:,
and will have to wait for next year,
when Bill Dahlen will give way as
mnsn Crcf ♦ r» H im- Smith Plf NTf• W,1 l a
ID PUSS TEST
IN OPEN TITLE
“Money Seekers” Must Submit to
Trial Qualifying Round Before
Championship Proper.
OF HIS ENGLISH
RIICINJ STABLE
American Horseman Quits Turf
Abroad by Selling Thorough
breds He Had in Training.
M'
N EW YORK, Aug. 31 —Official an
nouncement of the new condi
tions for the national open golf
championship has been made by John
Reid, Jr., secretary of the United
States Golf Association. As was de
cided at the annual meeting of the
association last winter, the open meet
is to be played on the course of the
Brookline Country Club.
For the first time in the history of
the U. S. G. A. the professionals who
enter for the open championship will
have to submit to the test of a quali
fying round before they are allowed'
to play in the championship proper.
This is the system that has been used
in Great Britain for a number of
years, and the increasing size of the
fields in our open championship has
at last made its adoption necessary
here.
• • •
W HEN all of the entries are in, the
field for the Brookline tourna
ment will be divided into two equal
portions, and the first half will play
36 holes on Tuesday, September 16.
The lowest 32 will qualify for the
championship proper, and the rest
will be out of the running. The same
process will be repeated with the oth
er half of the field on Wednesday,
September 17.
The 64 who succeed in qualifying
will line up on the morning of Thurs
day, September 18, for the champion
ship competition. As has been the
case in the past 72 holes of medal play
will constitute the test. The tourna
ment will end on Friday, Septemb« r
19.
• ft *
T HE prizes are th^ same as have
been offered in the past—-$300, a
gold medal and custody, for the ensu
ing year, of the championship trophy,
for the winner of the title; $150 for
second, $100 for third, $80 for fourth,
$70 for fifth, $60 for sixth. $50 for
seventh, $40 for eighth, $30 for ninth,
and $20 for tenth. In the event of an
amateur winning any of these prizes
he will be given the equivalent in
plate.
With Harry Yardon. Edward Ray,
Arnaud Massey and other foreign pro
fessionals in the coming tournament,
the open championship should be one
of the most hotly contested that has
ever taken place in this country. The
present champion is J. J. McDermott,
of Atlantic City, who has held the
title for two years.
By E. B. G. Fitzhamon.
Special Cable to The American.
I ONDON, Aug. 8C.—James B
Hoggin's racing Jacket will
never be seen again on an Eng
lish turf, according to gossips at New
market, where he has sold the last
two thoroughbreds he had in train
ing. One of these he named Final
Shot, as If Indicative of his last ven
ture on the fickle seas of racing.
Final Shot Is a three-year-old filly
by Haggln’s favorite stallion, Water
cress, and she has proved a most
provoklngly disappointing last ven
ture. Time and again she ran a win
ning race in big fields that always
contained one horse able to nose her
out In the last stride or two.
Probably no horse of her age ever
was beaten by a nose, a head or a
neck so often In one season as Final
Shot. Last year she ran second or
third a dozen times, but never won
until this summer, when she scored
her maiden victory in her twenty-
second race.
* * *
ANY jockeys failed to get home
first on Final Shot, and, strange
to say, the one that finally succeeded
is named Charles Dickens.
Though regretting the passing of
Haggin’s racing colors, Newmarket
expects to welcome the usual con
signment of yearlings to Its Decem
ber sales, and hopes to welcome sev
eral more of his annual consign
ments.
The sale of the late Charles Koh
ler’s Americaji-bred two-year-olds
has been held, top prices being good.
$8,000 being paid for Coronis, a filly
by Voter, out of Court Dress. She
was bred at the late James R.
Keene’s Castleton stud farm in Ken
tucky, and her dam carried Keene’s
colors into second place in the Futu
rity he expected to win with Peter
Pan, or Ballot.
• • •
A PART from this filly, the Kohler
two-year-oldc only sold for the
prices of good, bad and indifferent
selling platers. There were fifteen of
them.
A filly by Keene’s Superman made
$3,000, and another, by Voter, nettled
$2,400. Two colts by Uncle looked of
little acocunt. and altogether they
brought only $900, which is nothing as
selling platers go In England. Emil
Herz bought one of them for^ $600,
also paying $550 for a colt by North
ern Star out of Tochlight.
After passing through the ring un
sold at the Newmarket July sales,
choicely bred English brood mares
have been sold privately for $16,000
to John Sanford, and will be shipped
soon to bis breeding farm near Sara
toga. in New York State. This looks
as if he retains some faith In the fu
ture of thoroughbred racing in Amer
ica.
These mares are half sisters. Op
pression and Light Opera. Oppres
sion is by Saint Serf, out of Light
Comedy, and Is In foal to Radium
Light Opera is by Zlnfandel, out of
Light Comedy, and Is In foal to Sun-
star. winner of Epsom Derby two
years ago.
Graft for Ball Stars Near End
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May Eliminate Player-Scribe
“LEFTY” GILBERT TO DENVER.
TERRE HAUTE, INI)., Aug. 3
"Lefty” Gilbert, southpaw pitcher
turned over to Torre Haute by the
Cubs, left to-night to join the Den
ver club, to which he has been sold.
BURNS HELD TO DRAW.
DENVER, COLO.. Aug. 31—Beiy
Chavez, the Mexican, and Frankie
Burns, of Jersey City, went ten fast
rounds here to a draw last night.
CUBS VS. PERU.
LA SALLE. ILL., Aug. 3. —After
canceling the exhibition game at Peru
for September 4. Owner Murphy, of the
Chicago Cub>. decided to give a game
there on September 12.
G RAFT for the ball players In
•‘writing” articles for papers
around the circuits, especially
being featured during the world’s se
ries, Is to be wiped out by the Na
tional Commission. Letters received
from B. B. Johnson, president of the
American League, and T. J. Lynch,
president of the National League,
bring out this information.
While nothing definite has been
ruled by either the National Cornmlsi-
slon or Johnson or Lynch, as heads
of their league’s or members of the
National Commission, tne two high
moguls state that steps will be taken
to do away with the evil which has
brought rounds of criticism from rival
players, managers, magnates and even
the scribes.
Reading between the lines of Presi
dent Johnson’s letter there are two
ways In which the player will have to
retire from the field of Journalism.
First: TH© National Commission
may rule prohibiting the athlete from
allowing their names to be used on
articles not written by themselves.
Second: The league presidents will
suggest to the magnates of the con
testing clubs preventing the players
from encroaching upon the field of
the legitimate scribes.
The first step to eliminate the play
er-scribe came last winter when it
was exposed that the players did not
write their articles. The names of
the real authors and the piayers were
brought before President Johnson,
and he immediately sent out a warn
ing in his league.
Johnson’s Command Obeyed.
President Johnson’s command was
obeyed and every American League
player had to refrain from “writing.”
At that time Frank Chance intended
to join the field of “writers,” but when
he signed up with the Yankees he
was forced to withdraw.
And President Lynch, too, fought
against the player-scribe. However,
Manager McGraw, of the Giants;
Christy Mathewnon and a few other
continue collecting from syndicates,
although they do not write their own
stories.
That It is foolish to allow the
player to become a scribe is gleaned
from the following paragraph, which
appeared in McGraw’s story this
week:
Men who have been considered
steady veterans have gone all
off their norma! form. Barry
was taken out of the game last
week because he was going bad
ly, and Barry was considered to
be one of the infield mainstays.
“Connie” Mack put Oldring, a
regular outfielder for the last
several seasons, at shortstop, and
he seems to be handling tne job
in pretty good shape. The crack
ing of his veterans is what wor
ries a manager.
McGraw says that Barry wa?
benched because he fell off In hla
playing, when the truth is that Barry
was badly injured in a series with
the Naps two weeks ago, and was
so badly crippled that he could not
get back in the game.
Imagine Mack benching Jack Barrv
when he is physically fit to purade
around short and use Oldring in that
position!
Matty’s Story Caused Trouble.
In the 10Tl world’s series, an article
“written” by Mathewson "called ’
Marquard for pitching a certain kind
of a ball to Frank Baker, who got a
homo run that won the game. Then,
on the next day, Mathewson pitched,
and Baker also found “Big Six” for a
home run.
These stories, according to reports
In the East, caused trouble in the
ranks of the Giants, and aided in their
defeat by the Athletics.
Then last fail, the Red Sox, ap
pearing In the world’s series, had sev
eral members “writing” articles. The
scribes did not weigh thoir words, but
had one ’■‘layer attacking the other
for this or that play, with the result
that several scraps were held in the
clubhouse after a game.
Reports, too, went the rounds tha*
the Red Sox players resented the
stories “written,” and caused a dis
turbance that the players were nag
ging continually this spring, and re
fused to aid the team play, which
brought them down from a world's
Letters From the
Two High Bosses
Sporting Editor The Atlanta
Georgian and News: The commls-
misMlon has taken no formal ac
tion in regard to players waiting
for the papers. As president of the
American League I have taken the
subject up with our club owners,
and insisted that this practice be
stopped. The commission is welt
ing on Joe Jackson, the president
of the Baseball Writers' Associa
tion. He promised to write Chair
man Herrmann on this matter and
request that some action be taken.
It is our purpose, however, to
“stamp out” the evil, and some
thing will be done at the next
meeting of the commission. Sin
cerely yours, B. B. JOHNSON.
• * *
Sporting Editor The Atlanta
Georgian and News: There Is no
question but what the commission,
at Its meeting to arrange for the
world’s series, will take up the
question of ball players writing
for the newspapers and covering
this series. I am not prepared to
eay Just what action will be taken
by the commission to put a atop to
this practice, hut the commission
is unanimous In its opinion that
such articles should be handled
by the newspaper scribes them
selves. Yours truly,
T. J. LYNCH.
Cross May Act as
Substitute for Welsh
Against Champion
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA,
Aug. 31.—Unable to get Pollock, mana
ger for Welsh, down to business regard
ing the arrangements for the fight
scheduled for September 20, Hugh
Springer, head of the local fight syndi
cate, to-day notified the English chamr-
pion that the promoters now proposed
to open negotiations with Leach Cross
when the “fighting dentist” comes to i
town to-morrow, and put him In as an
opponent for Ritchie, instead of Welsh.
This threat had the effect of the re
ceipt of an Immediate understanding by
Springer from both Pollock and Welsh
That they would appear Saturday morn
ing at any place designated and poet
their forfeits. Springer accordingly
gave them until Saturday noon. Welsh
seemed to be able to convince Springer
that he was getting in good shape and
would have no complaint three wee Its
from to-day that he was not ready to
fight.
Ojiamplonshlp chib to a fifth place
one.
Commission Is Supreme.
The National Commission is com
posed of Messrs. Johnson, Lynch and
Herrmann, and is the supreme court
of baseball. What they say goes.
And if Mr B. B. Johnson writes
that “it is our purpose to stamp out
the evil” then the playersf graft of be
coming scribes Is at an end.
White May Referee
Palzer-Moran Scrap
NEW YORK, Aug 31.—Frank Moran
and A1 l’alzer, heavyweights, to-day
stopped quibbling over the selection of a
referee for their bout here Wednesday
night. A slate of three names was made
by the managers of the men who would
be suitable as referees. Those men are
Billy Joh, Billy Roche and Charley
White. Final selection of a referee will
be made from that list, with the chances
favoring White.
Jock McNeil Benefit
Races Next Friday
The Jock McNeil benefit race® sched
uled to take place at the Atlanta Mo
tordrome last night were called off on
account of rain. They will be run off
next Friday.
The regular program of races will be
held on Monday night. The same events
scheduled to be run off last night will
be held Monday. An added event, the
Australian pursuit, has been arranged
by the management.
HEAVYWEIGHT BOXERS ARE
BARRED IN MIDDLE WEST
CHICAGO, Aug. 3f —Heavyweight*
will be barred from contests in Ken
osha and Racine, Wis., boxing centers
in the Middle Welt, following the
killing of "Bull” Young in his bout
with Jesse Willard at Los Angeles, It
was announced to-day.
The Kenosha Athletic Club, whose
bouts art patronized largely by Chi
cagoans, to-day abandoned plans for
a meeting between Carl Morris anl
Jim Flynn and put up the bar3
against the heavies.
WILLARD HEARING CARRIED
OVER UNTIL NEXT MONDAY
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 31.—After hear
ing the testimony of three witnesses In
the preliminary examination of Jess
Willard, Promoter T. J. McCarey, and
ten others who “participated” In the
fight at Vernon, In which “Bull” Young
was killed, the hearing was continued
until next Tuesday.
MRS STALLINGS DEAD.
BUFFALO, N. Y., Aug. 31.—Mrs.
George T, Stallings, wife of the man
ager of the Boston National baseball
team, Is dead at a local hospital here
after a long Illness.
ENGLISH GOLFERS WIN.
KENOSHA. WIS., Aug. 31.—Vardon
and Ray, the English golfers, defeated
the pick of American players of Wis
consin on the Kenosha Country Club
links.
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